Improve the Accuracy and Efficiency in Materials Management Processes

Enterprise content management directly addresses the business process needs of the materials management department. The application gives you the power to provide content enablement and process automation to improve the accuracy and efficiency of invoice processing and eliminate many of the manual activities in materials management that negatively affect productivity.

The materials management department faces a number of challenges in daily activities, including manually managing the invoicing process, storing and retrieving paper documents, searching for needed information, and manually pulling documentation. With Horizon Enterprise Content Manager™ in the materials management department, you can elevate the functionality of your materials management systems by delivering the relevant documentation in your existing application and process workflow. This ability to integrate documentation reduces errors and inefficiencies, increases productivity, and lowers the operating costs tied to manual processes in the supply management lifecycle.

Benefits

Having the right information at the right time in materials management empowers healthcare organizations to:

• Reduce time-intensive, error prone manual processes and entries
• Reduce fulfillment cycle times with instant access to relevant invoices, purchase orders, packing slips, and more
• Ensure positive vendor relationships by having accurate information at your fingertips
• Free record storage space by eliminating the need to store thousands of procurement related documents
• Reference archived reports for data analysis
• Eliminate labor costs associated with manually searching through cabinets and boxes of information

Features

• The ability to provide electronic access to paper invoices eliminates many of the laborious, manual steps involved in invoice processing
• Optical Character Recognition (OCR) automatically recognizes data and populates metadata fields ensuring accuracy in indexing and data integrity
• Automatic indexing ensures users can easily locate and access content downstream
• Users are able to electronically capture, store, manage, and instantly access documents and images including:
  • Invoices
  • Purchase Orders
  • Packing Slips
  • Approvals/Denials
  • Vendor Contracts
  • Inventory Pictures

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